A sixty-seven-year-old patient arrives in the emergency department complaining of progressively worsening bouts of right leg weakness. Family members comment that the patient is confused and often has trouble forming words for periods that typically last about a day. The right leg weakness improves only slightly from instance to instance, leaving the patient weaker each time. Because the symptoms are transient, the patient has put off seeing a physician until now. The patient reports having smoked a pack of cigarettes each day for forty-five years. What tests might the ED physician order to arrive at a diagnosis?
[Answered]: A sixty-seven-year-old patient arrives in the…
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